"I will make you into a great nation and I will BLESS you; I will make your name great and you will be a BLESSING. I will bless those you bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all people on earth will be blessed through you." - Genesis 12:2-3
You cannot give what you do not have. The principle stands true even when it comes to becoming a blessing to other people. God did not bless us just to satisfy our personal needs and wants. No, in all these, there is a purpose for being a blessed person. And if we desire to bless others, we must be connected to the source of blessing and experience the blessing Himself.
Moses wrote, "Choose Blessing!" Who else doesn't want to be blessed after all? Nobody wants suffering but most of us already experienced the fangs of starvation, the agony of torture and sickness, the demeaning of ones self due to failures one after another. It's inevitable. But we can do something about it. As I mentioned, we only need to be connected to the source of blessing. It is only in His presence that we find true peace despite the raging seas crashing against our shore of comfort, love in the midst of havoc and conflict, hope in the middle of wilderness.
When God promised to bless Abram, He didn't just bless him but also destined him to be a blessing. However, looking into the promise, God didn't say you will be a blessing and I will bless you. It doesn't work vis-a-vis. The river do not go up to the falls, but the falls flow through the river and onto the vast ocean. Our lives are only instrument of God to release the blessing to other people.
The promise [of Blessing] comes by Faith (Romans 4:16) for without Faith, it is impossible to please God (Hebrew 11:6). Receiving the promise is through pleasing God thru Faith. Had Abram did not believe in God to fulfill it, the promise could never materialize. Same as true with us. If we want to experience blessing, we must have faith and not doubt, believing that God rewards those who earnestly seek Him and He who promised is faithful (Heb. 10:23).
We may not have enough to share to others, but being faithful with the little that we have now can touch the heart of our Living God to bless us. I believe God blesses His people gradually. He doesn't just pour them all out on us because He wants to test us in the area of our faithfulness. We don't need to be a multimillionaire before we desire to serve Him. We don't need to have it all and got the whole world in our hands to extend a hand to others. For what profit for a man if he gains the whole yet forfeits his soul? The blessing is not a winner-takes-it-all kind of promise. God allows us to enjoy what we have now and exercise the passion to bless with it. Let us be reminded by the Proverb 30: 7-9, "Two things I ask of you, O LORD; do not refuse me before I die: Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread. Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say, 'Who is the LORD ?' Or I may become poor and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God."
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